Tom Bevier, Book Reviewer

Book Review

Wilber's War (a trilogy)

by Tom Bevier

Three years in the Pacific Theater during WWIl leads to 700 intimate letters, but this story is less about a war hero than it is about a loving family man. In his weighty trilogy (nine pounds on the bathroom scale) in honor of the father... Read More

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Black Cat 2-1

by Tom Bevier

This moving memoir about the gritty life of a military helicopter pilot fills a gap in the genre of Vietnam literature. In the onslaught of books written about the Vietnam War, there has been endless questioning as to whether it was... Read More

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A Memoir of the Missile Age

by Tom Bevier

This fascinating memoir of a Soviet military technology engineer recounts with conviction the political failings of nuclear disarmament. When Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev, author of A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man’s Journey, was a... Read More

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The Miracle of Sam

by Tom Bevier

There’s a lot of imagined doggy talk in "The Miracle of Sam", a heartfelt story of a couple in Sedona, Arizona, and the canine companion who renews their lives. As Andy Rooney once quipped, “If dogs could talk it would take a lot of... Read More

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But One Husband

by Tom Bevier

Sarah Ann Thirkell was born in 1837 in Yorkshire, England. She grew up in that damp and foggy place in a family near the bottom of the English class system; she came to yearn for a life free of subservience to the whims of the ruling... Read More

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Malta Remembered

by Tom Bevier

The Mediterranean archipelago of Malta has been strategically important for a succession of powers, from the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans to the Spanish, French, and English. The islands’ history and landscape also served as the... Read More

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Adventures with Sam

by Tom Bevier

If you go dove hunting in Argentina, you are expected to kill a thousand birds a day or “suffer the ignominy” of fellow hunters. That is what happened to Sam W. McQuade on the first day of the hunt, when he shot only five-hundred.... Read More

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Caught in a Flap!

by Tom Bevier

Of the myriad ways to impress the “chicks,” few are more novel than the one tendered in "Caught in a Flap!", a naughty novel dealing mainly with the nether region of the female anatomy. The author, Des Parunia, a doctor with a... Read More

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